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February 15, 2018
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Moving multiple parts in an assembly to a new or sub-assembly simultaneously?

  • February 15, 2018
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Afternoon All, 

 

I am currently working with a large assembly, and required to make sub-assemblies for creating technical drawings. At the moment, the only way I'm able to copy parts into the new sub-assembly is dragging each individual part from the model tree into the new sub-assembly. 

 

I have tried messing around to figure out a way to simultaneously copy all of the desired parts into the sub-assembly, but nothing has worked out. 

 

I'm sure there's a simple solution that I'm missing, can anybody help? Thanks. 

Best answer by StephenW

Options I can think of. 

1. Componenet - Restructure. You can select multiple parts and move them to an assembly.

restructure.jpg

 

2.Select the components, right click, move to new assembly (this will make a new assembly and move all selected components in to it.

movetoassembly.jpg

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StephenW23-Emerald IIIAnswer
23-Emerald III
February 15, 2018

Options I can think of. 

1. Componenet - Restructure. You can select multiple parts and move them to an assembly.

restructure.jpg

 

2.Select the components, right click, move to new assembly (this will make a new assembly and move all selected components in to it.

movetoassembly.jpg

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    tbitman1-VisitorAuthor
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    February 15, 2018

    StephenWilliams,

     

    Thank you! Component Restructure is exactly the type of tool I was looking for. Working as intended perfectly. 

     

    Have a great day.

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    dgschaefer21-Topaz II
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    February 15, 2018

    One thing to watch out for in restructuring is to make sure that your assy references are still valid as well as any features that were made in the assy.  Creo will let you move things and will sometimes break references.

     

    For example, if a component is constrained simply by the lone "default" constraint in the assy and then is moved to a new sub assy using the second option listed by Stephen, Creo will change the "default" constraint of the component to"fixed" in the new sub assy.

     

    You'll need to go and look at each component to be sure it's still constrained how you want after you restructure.

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      tbitman1-VisitorAuthor
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      February 15, 2018

      Doug,

       

      Thank you for the input. I will keep this in mind moving forward!

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